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Thread #13190   Message #108509
Posted By: MAG (inactive)
25-Aug-99 - 05:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mean Talking Blues (Woody Guthrie)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mean talking blues--Woody Guthrie
It must have been the Kline book on Woody I read; I recallthat Marjorie divorced Woody not because she didn't love him and want him around, but because with his behavior disturbances, he was a menace to the children.

That he went on to have another child, knowing he had a genetic disability was the height of irresponsibility (for both of them).

Woody was a young man when he abandoned his wife and FOUR children in the Dust Bowl. He had no symptoms, and his mother dies in an asylum before Huntington's chorea was identified. I have never heard anyone defend that.

MAG